Treatise on Solid State Chemistry

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Metastable Phases Produced by Rapid Quenching from the Vapor and the Liquid

   • A. K. Sinha, B. C. Giessen, D. E. Polk

   Pages 1-88

3. Inclusion Compounds

   • F. R. Gamble, T. H. Geballe

   Pages 89-166

4. The Structural Chemistry of Some Complex Oxides: Ordered and Disordered Extended Defects

   • LeRoy Eyring, Leung-Tak Tai

   Pages 167-252

5. Interstitial Phases

   • A. L. Bowman, N. H. Krikorian

   Pages 253-292

6. Inorganic Amorphous Solids and Glass-Ceramic Materials

   • D. R. Uhlmann

   Pages 293-333

7. The Morphology of Crystalline Synthetic Polymers

   • F. Khoury, E. Passaglia

   Pages 335-496

8. The Rate of Crystallization of Linear Polymers with Chain Folding

   • John D. Hoffman, G. Thomas Davis, John I. Lauritzen Jr.

   Pages 497-614

9. Organic Molecular Crystals: Anthracene

   • R. G. Kepler

   Pages 615-678

10. Organic Molecular Crystals: Charge-Transfer Complexes

    • Zoltän G. Soos, Douglas J. Klein

    Pages 679-767

11. Back Matter

    Pages 769-774

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The last quarter-century has been marked by the extremely rapid growth of the solid-state sciences. They include what is now the largest subfield of physics, and the materials engineering sciences have likewise flourished. And, playing an active role throughout this vast area of science and engineer­ ing have been very large numbers of chemists. Yet, even though the role of chemistry in the solid-state sciences has been a vital one and the solid-state sciences have, in turn, made enormous contributions to chemical thought, solid-state chemistry has not been recognized by the general body of chemists as a major subfield of chemistry. Solid-state chemistry is not even well defined as to content. Some, for example, would have it include only the quantum chemistry of solids and would reject thermodynamics and phase equilibria; this is nonsense. Solid-state chemistry has many facets, and one of the purposes of this Treatise is to help define the field. Perhaps the most general characteristic of solid-state chemistry, and one which helps differentiate it from solid-state physics, is its focus on the chemical composition and atomic configuration of real solids and on the relationship of composition and structure to the chemical and physical properties of the solid. Real solids are usually extremely complex and exhibit almost infinite variety in their compositional and structural features.

• quantum chemistry
• solid state chemistry
• structure
• thermodynamics

• Research and Patents, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA

  N. B. Hannay

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